At first, they were utterly in love. 

            Just by looking in their eyes, no one would need a verbal answer to tell that their feelings for each were real.  With the amount of kisses they shared in the hallways, the cheesy love letters for each other, endless nights tangled in each other’s sheets and wrapped in each other’s arms, it was like their souls were meant to be.  Some people had their doubts for their relationship, but they worked hard to prove them wrong.

            When they met in their last year of high school, no one would have figured out that their opposite personalities would bond to form the most ideal relationship.  Baekhyun was quiet, shy, and preferred to be locked up in a library reading books, while Chanyeol was outgoing, humorous, and preferred to be outside under the sunlight.  Not one human has ever seen Baekhyun smile, until Park Chanyeol came and casted the darkness away.

            Within weeks, they were inseparable.  Both of their laughter echoed melodically down the hall, and they shared jokes that made completely no sense to other humans.   Then the day came when they confessed their love for each other, and with a burst of courage, Chanyeol asked the cute blonde boy to be his one and only love.  It only took Baekhyun a brief second to say yes, and both of them shared their first kiss. 

            Months soared by, and their love only kept blossoming.  Yet, before they knew it, they were hand in hand, smiling for cameras while holding their high school diplomas and flowers their friends and families gave them.  Tears streamed down their faces when they realized they’ll be living in the real world together—forever.

            Both Chanyeol and Baekhyun enrolled in the same university together, and with luck’s kiss, were both qualified to be in it.  Days passed, and they became roommates, majoring different subjects, and allowing their relentless love for each other to cultivate to points where Baekhyun’s fragile heart could burst at any moment.  Not once did their feelings decline.  After months of whispering sweet things to each other, caressing each other’s skin, holding each other tight, kissing each other until both of their hearts melted, the ever-so-manly Chanyeol dropped down to one knee and proposed to the smiling blonde love of his life, Byun Baekhyun.  For Baekhyun, it only took a heartbeat to say yes and have the beautiful ring be slipped onto his perfect finger. 

            The love birds decided to wait until they graduate university to marry.  News of Chanyeol’s proposal spread like a wildfire, and both families were extremely happy for them.  With years of planning, the day came and Chanyeol watched his beautiful yet handsome fiancé walk down the aisle and listened to him declare his everlasting love until Death do them part at the altar, with the sun setting just beside them.  The exact moment when the priest said, “You may kiss…” both of them shared their first kiss as husbands once the setting sun hit the horizon and night fell. 

            Baekhyun and Chanyeol both applied for jobs that gave them enough money to buy a house together.  It wasn’t big, but it wasn’t too small either.  Chanyeol would always remind Baekhyun that home is wherever he is, and he would respond with bright red cheeks and a slight smile that would send Chanyeol’s heart racing so fast it nearly hurts.  However, Chanyeol applied for another job that quickly got him promotions, and he climbed the ladder of being one of the top advisors.  Months passed in their marriage, and as their love grew, so did their income.  One night, Chanyeol broke the news to his husband and as they held each other tightly with wide smiles on their faces, the next day they went house hunting.  The day after they found the perfect house, they moved in. 

            However, with Chanyeol earning so many promotions causing him to drown in his work, the married couple barely had time for each other.  Baekhyun would prepare dinner and only eat alone, watching the food he prepared go cold and eventually be wrapped up in plastic wrap then being placed in the fridge.  He would go to bed alone, feeling empty and cold that his husband isn’t there to hold him like he used to, but the blonde didn’t mind.  Baekhyun knew that his husband would crawl into this bed and hold him while he’s sleeping, and as he kept his faith in him, he would go to bed in peace, but little did he know his heart started to feel empty.

            When Chanyeol would return home, half exhausted, he would always go straight to the kitchen, eat the dinner Baekhyun prepared, and still have the regretful feeling of not being here with Baekhyun.  He was happy with his job, but he missed watching Baekhyun falling asleep in his arms with a half-smile on his cute face.  Baekhyun’s cheeks would be slightly pink as he was always embarrassed with Chanyeol’s witty comments, but they would hold each other tightly and breathe simultaneously.  There are times when he wanted to quit his job, but in result, he knew both of them wouldn’t be happy with that choice.  After he finished his dinner and washed dishes, returning to their room and slipping under the sheets with an innocent and vulnerable Baekhyun, all his troubles would go away because coming home to him made all the hard work and pain go away.

            Time passed and their time together soon declined.  Baekhyun would have endless nights of eating dinner alone, and his faith of ever having a day with Chanyeol soon became a blurry black-and-white dream.  His husband was required to work every day for twelve hours, and although he his grateful for his hard work ethic, at least one day off would mean so much.  Chanyeol would return home, too exhausted to eat his dinner and fall asleep on the coach in the living room since its closest to the front door.  Baekhyun would wake up in the middle of the night, hurt that his dorky husband isn’t there in his bed with him and hear his snores echo down the hall into his room.  The once always-smiling Baekhyun soon became the Baekhyun he was in high school—quiet, poker faced, and alone.

              Eventually, Baekhyun quit making dinner for Chanyeol because he’ll only find it left in the fridge.  It’ll be wasted like it always has been. Chanyeol wouldn’t give him kisses goodbye anymore, and that only broke his fragile heart more.  His husband wouldn’t come into their room anymore, talk to him anymore, let alone look at him in his eyes and realize what pain Baekhyun is going through.  For months, Baekhyun would be alone, wondering when Chanyeol would be in his arms again and not locked up in an office.

In a blink of an eye, their moments of laughter and bliss came to an abrupt halt.  The need to kiss each other, hold each other, comfort each other soon faded away to the abyss.  One year of perfection eventually froze in time, and now they seem like mere strangers to each other, under the same roof, both wearing the same ring that had their love engraved on the fine metal.  Soon after that, it was just as if their love for each other never existed. Baekhyun would leave their house, make new friends, apply for new jobs, and eventually grew a new passion to spend his time with—to sing.  His voice melted listeners, but the only person he wanted to hear his voice was his husband.

            But he was never there.

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